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“Really?” I whisper.

Cian nods, carefully lifting me by the hips before easing me onto his erect dick. The way he feels inside me is so amazing, my head drops back like I’m stargazing.

“I love you,” he repeats, holding me still as he kisses along my jaw. “You’re a spoiled brat, a pain in my ass, and you’re in my thoughts every minute of the fucking day. You drive me crazy, and I don’t ever want to be sane again.” As he bites down on my neck, I gasp, all the breath lost from my lungs. “I sure as hell know I never want to live without you either.”

I squirm my hips, whimpering. “Cian?—”

“No one’s ever going to hurt you,” he growls against my skin, his fingers digging into my hips. “I won’t let anyone between us ever again. If they try, I’ll rip them to fucking pieces.”

“Cian, please,” I gasp out, so full, I needmore?—

“I’ve got you, baby.” Cian works me up and down his shaft as if God intended for sex to take place in cars. And even though my side aches, I revel in the experiencebecause this is everything to me.

He’s everything to me.

“Oh.” Pleasure builds as I ride him. “Oh, god, Cian,yes.”

We steam up the tinted windows while trading moreI love you’s.

Something tells me we’re going to be saying that to each other for a long, long time.

Chapter 38

Cian

July comes, hot as hell and rumbling like a storm just over the horizon. The only thing that hasn’t gone to shit the past three weeks is my relationship with Harper. In my bed every night is truly the best way to have her. Second only to having her in my bed every morning.

We’ve been inseparable since the day she told me she loved me, but the reasons why are ominous at best, grim at worst.

The night after Harper announced her intended break from the Kings, the administration got word that a major business deal might pan out. Shane and Donal traveled to Vegas the next day to seal things up themselves.

Before they got on their plane, I caught up with them.

I wanted to come clean with Shane about Harper and me, about choosing to leave the family myself, if she goes. Shane wasn’t fucking happy about it, but all he said to me in that crowded airport terminal was, “You sound like Finn.”

We’ll discuss this when we return,was his final determination at the time.

Fine by me. I was in no hurry to rush Shane to a decision on what to do with me. Usually, unless you’re connected to thedon’s inner circle and have extenuating circumstances, the only way a person leaves the family is in a body bag.

When I left the airport that afternoon, I ran into Harper in the parking lot, where we had our heart-to-heart.

Both our fates hung in the balance. We were in limbo, awaiting judgment. And none of it mattered to us because we were—and are—still in love.

That day was the beginning of a kind of bliss for us, but for the Kings…

That day turned out to be a declaration of war.

No sooner had my friends warned me about the mole did we get word that Shane and Donal flew right into a trap. The expansion deal they went to Vegas to close? A sham. The De Lucas and the mole must’ve worked together to lure them there.

Shane and Donal were ambushed. Donal sustained injuries. Shane got shot a few times, too, but they don’t call himOld Bulletprooffor nothing. Both survived. Finn wanted to head to Vegas the minute we learned what happened, but Shane refused to give him permission to leave New York. Both Finn and his father being out of state would be like leaving the estate undefended.

He didn’t want to play further into the De Lucas’ hands.

Shortly after Shane and Donal were ambushed in Vegas, Thomas was jumped by an unknown assailant in the city. He escaped with a minor stab wound, but his attacker got away.

While this chaos unfolded, news of Enzo De Luca’s death spread like wildfire through the criminal underworld. It always baffles me how someone so hated while alive can morph into a beloved man once dead.

Anti-Kings sentiment within De Luca circles and the Italian mob is at an all-time high. Scattered declarations of war from near and far have yielded skirmishes in New York, Philadelphia, and Nevada in the weeks since.

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